I have requirement to monitor backups of our client servers through a monitoring server we have. Monitoring server is called Ncentral(N-able.com). But there is no way to monitor SBS backups through this monitoring server so I decided to go ahead and generate alerts for the backup success and failure events through the monitoring server. I know this can be done from the server by attaching a task to the events but I would like to do this through NCentral because then I don't have to do the same changes to all the SBS servers we manage.
SBS 2011 servers write backup logs (success,fail) to a separate folder called "backup" in the eventlog. The problem is we cannot monitor this folder using our monitoring server. So is there a way to write these backup logs to application or system log?
Your help is highly appreciated...